The introductory conceptual-documentary performance connects a collection of field recordings, primarily musical, by both authors, which they both made independently about fifteen years ago in Russia. The first of them was recorded by Liubov Plavska with the composer Danylo Pertsov* in Moscow - it is a joint rehearsal for a concert of Ukrainian music in Moscow. The continuation of remaining recordings is composed of fragments from the trip of Martin Klusák and his friends to the Far East of Russia - these are mainly recordings of local street musicians in the city of Khabarovsk, but also recordings from the interior of the temple and also from the Moscow marketplace.

From today's point of view, the content of the recordings appears to the authors as an 'aquarium' of memories of places and people no longer accessible, but also of the authors themselves: who they were at that time, where they could move, and how they perceived the surrounding world then - differently than today, perhaps only with vague premonitions…

In the interactive sound installation, chants recorded by the author from the Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration in the Russian Far East Khabarovsk are used. However, the chosen sound stylization abstracts them and distances them from the given liturgy and the church area and transfers them to the level of general or individual 'musical prayers' for today's situation, when a modern-day Iron Curtain was created in a violent form on the territory of Europe.** The structure and flow of the stylized sound of the installation controls a hanging bell, which visitors can ring and thereby influence its operation.

* Danylo Pertsov (1973–2021) – Ukrainian composer, multi-instrumentalist, artist, philosopher and musicologist.

** Note author: 'I am returning to these sounds of choral singing 10 years after I first used them in my own radio fiction The Princess with the Iron Mask (2014) created for the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain, re-discovering the value they mean to me.'